2012 Joint Area Centers SymposiumCities and Inequalities in a Transnational World conference seeks to better understand aspects of these unfolding processes of urbanization and transnationalism that might prove similar or different from the past and across regions.

REEEC Regional Faculty Associate Rosina Neginsky, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, is organizing the second annual conference forthe society Art, Literature and Music in Symbolism and Decadence (ALMSD), “Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences (the theme is Light and Darkness).” The conference will take place April 25 28, 2012 at Allerton Park in Monticello, Illinois. Registration is open to the public at http://www.uis.edu/hosted-orgs/conferences/symbolism/registration.html.

ALMSD is accepting news from those who work in the area of Symbolism to publish them in its annual newsletter. Please submit the news to Rosina Neginsky at rnegi1@uis.edu.

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